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PATRICK DOYLE CEO, Domino's Inc. Doyle's voice is big. His smile is bigger. The CEO of Domino's Inc. is jovial for a reason. Domino's stock is up 5,000 percent since 2008, its franchisees opened a store every seven hours last year and its market share is up to 15 percent of the market from only 9 percent in 2009. READ MORE

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DUG SONG CEO and Co-Founder, Duo Security Inc. Song has changed the way internet service providers and client companies worldwide protect their companies and customers from hackers. While doing that, he has changed the way Silicon Valley investors view Michigan firms, having attracted an A list of West Coast VC firms who wanted him to move his company to Silicon Valley but were still eager to invest in him when he wouldn't. READ MORE

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LA JUNE MONTGOMERY TABRON President and CEO, W.K. Kellogg Foundation Montgomery Tabron is bringing a new voice to conversations about education and racial segregation in Michigan as a Detroit native and the first African American woman to serve as president and CEO of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. READ MORE

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RIP RAPSON President and CEO, Kresge Foundation Home mortgages in Detroit are up 25 percent across the city. The QLine has spurred $1.3 billion in economic development. Both are examples of the wide-ranging work the Kresge Foundation has done to show the world Detroit is on the way back — and of how Rapson is changing philanthropy in Detroit. READ MORE

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DAN GILBERT Founder and Chairman, Quicken Loans Inc./Rock Ventures LLC From the street level, emergency sirens whir up to the 10th floor of the gleaming One Campus Martius building where Gilbert has his office as Quicken Loans Inc. and Rock Ventures LLC founder and chairman. It's a surprising sound in the downtown that the billionaire baron of mortgages and real estate — and a player in industries as niche as luxury watches, a rap lyric annotation website, a sort of stock market for sneakers, and football helmets — has played a key role in remaking in six years. "It's rare that you hear that out here, especially more than one," Gilbert says in an aside during an interview. READ MORE

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MAURICE COX Planning director, City of Detroit When Mayor Mike Duggan recruited Cox from New Orleans two years ago to become Detroit's new urban planner, the city planning department had six employees and was seen as a pass-through for developers. "We hadn't had a world class planner in decades," Duggan said. "The planning department basically ran demolitions." READ MORE

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PATTI POPPE President and CEO, CMS Energy Corp. and Consumers Energy In Poppe's perfect world, line workers at Consumers Energy would show up for work each day at one of dozens of sites across the state and be out the door to a job site within 15 minutes. READ MORE

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DICK AND BETSY DEVOS Dick & Betsy DeVos Family Foundation In 1991, a plan was floated publicly in Grand Rapids to build a multi-purpose sports and convention arena north of downtown. Dick DeVos, who at the time was on a path to the CEO's job in his family's Amway Corp., picked up the phone and started lobbying against the idea. READ MORE

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MARY BARRA CEO, General Motors Barra is a company woman. She's been at General Motors Co. her entire professional career. But that doesn't mean she's part of the status quo. After GM's bankruptcy and a massive recall crisis on top of decades of declining market share, Barra, a second-generation GM lifer, has turned out to be the change agent that the automaker needed. READ MORE

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ANYA BABBITT Founder and CEO, SPLT The average American commute to work is 26.4 minutes, and it's been getting longer for years, according to U.S. Census data reported in The Washington Post earlier this year. As long as people continue to live in the suburbs, that's unlikely to change. But what if it were easier for people to share their rides to work? That's Babbitt's plan for making workers more relaxed — and reducing CO2 emissions in the meantime. READ MORE

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JOHN FOX CEO, Beaumont Health Fox arrived at newly-merged Beaumont Health in March 2015 with a singular mission: to unify three legacy Beaumont hospitals, four Oakwood Healthcare hospitals and Botsford Hospital. The new Beaumont Health won federal antitrust approval and closed September 2014. Now, Fox is on the uncertain brink of more major changes in health care. READ MORE

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KHALI SWEENEY Founder and CEO, Downtown Boxing Gym The boxing gym as a sort of school of hard knocks is an ancient cliché from movies and books. Life lessons imparted from the corner of the ropes. The odor of sweat and the din of slapping leather in a dimly-lit basement. The nonprofit Downtown Boxing Gym Youth Program, founded by Carlo "Coach Khali" Sweeney is a modern take on that scene. But instead of churning out boxers desperate to escape the inner city, the organization is lifting up kids who are underserved by Detroit's poor education system with a safe, clean, well-lit facility that puts learning above punching. READ MORE

These are times of epic change: an economic transition atop a technological revolution amidst a new demography that is literally transforming the face of our nation.

This confluence of transformative events, the magnitude of which has not been experienced since the beginning of the 20th century, creates a particular challenge for leaders.

For the first time ever, Crain'sDetroitBusiness is celebrating Michigan's top "Change Makers" — the most influential and innovative leaders who are helping their companies and communities navigate the harsh currents of change.

Ones to watch

In selecting 2017's Michigan Change Makers, we encountered promising leaders whose work has the potential to make tremendous change, transform places and take their organizations in exciting new directions. We're watching them to see what they'll do next.

This list is as broad as change itself: Corporate CEOs, tech gurus, nonprofit champions, and re-inventors of government and politics. It includes the head of GM (Barra), the face of new Detroit (Gilbert), and the wallet of western Michigan (DeVos).

These men and women don't just react to change; they embrace and exploit it.

As you read this series of stories, ask yourself whether your enterprise is adapting quickly enough to economic and social shifts. Are you a change maker? If not, are there any lessons you can glean from these profiles?

Two caveats: First, this list is not exhaustive. A state on the move in a time of great movement is filled with leaders who are nimbly adapting their causes. Tell us who we left off. We might make room for them next year.

Second, these profiles are not endorsements. Fair-minded readers may object to the course of change charted by one or more of these disruptors. Feel free to do so, even as you channel their spirit of risk and revolution to make yourself more successful in business. Be a maker of good change.